Teh Gay

Headline: Anti-gay State Rep Solicited Teen Boy On Craiglist

Yawn, it happened again. People need to understand that anybody who gives a rip to the degree they need to be outwardly anti-gay is definitely gay themselves. The rest of us just don't care enough about it.

Friends

Firedog Lake reporting on Mitt Romney: Pressed by an attendee at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday as to why he was focusing on entitlement reforms as a means of deficit reduction over asking corporations to share part of the burden, the GOP frontrunner shot back: "Corporations are people, my friend..."



Allow us to retort: You're a multimillionaire who made his money outsourcing American jobs. You're not my friend.

Shrinking Democracy

LEE FANG: Were you praying today for reducing the size of government even if it comes to a government shut down?

TOM DELAY: I’m always praying for reducing the size of government!

Yep, they want to reduce the size of government by the people. Republicans would rather have corporate rule and they're not shy about saying so.

Pictures, Words

Raw Story: Rep. Allen West (R-FL), a favorite among tea party Republicans, insisted Monday during an appearance on the conservative Fox News Channel that a refusal to increase government revenues through taxes had "nothing" to do with Standard & Poor's dropping America's credit rating last week.



On Friday (just below) we posted the quote from S&P that demonstrates this latest GOP lie in the clearest possible way. So no need to post it again. But if you follow the link you'll see that in the backround of his interview is a massive yacht. Which is entirely appropriate given who Republicans represent.

Money Talks

S&P on their credit downgrade of US debt: Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.

When Republicans win America loses. But Eric Cantor's making money.

Crimes Against Democracy

Paul Weyrich, father of of the modern right-wing movement and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation: "I don't want everybody to vote... As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down"

If you ever had any doubt the longstanding cesspool that is Republican party voter suppression is deliberate, this should be the end of that.

Half Baked

Think Progress: Popular hate blogger Pam Geller has received scrutiny in recent days as the public became aware that the right-wing terrorist in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, had praised her blog and thoroughly cited her writing in his political manifesto. After a number of blogs made the connection, as well as the New York Times, the Atlantic, and other major outlets, Geller became incensed and began lashing out at her critics. In a post defending herself yesterday, Geller — who has called Obama “President Jihad” and claimed that Arab language classes are a plot to subvert the United States — reached a new low. Geller justifies Breivik’s attack on the Norwegian Labour Party summer youth camp because she says the camp is part of an anti-Israel “indoctrination training center.”

She goes on to post a picture of a gathering at the camp where Breivik committed his mass murder. Under it she writes: “Note the faces which are more Middle [sic] Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian.” Well, we note two things... first, what this horrible person espouses is pretty typical of right-wingers. They are a truly dangerous and disgusting bunch. And second, as a Jew one would think Geller would realize that people who respond to "pure" racial rhetoric would just as easily bake her in an oven just because she's Jewish. In fact, they already have. She would do well to rediscover her humanity before she helps it happen again.